Category Archives: Eldering

long hard questions?

Of the long purpose storytelling What are the hard questions? :- Doug.

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To us this matters

This leads to softness, to strengthening ligaments, to fellow feeling, to inclusivity. We may not have any discernible affect on future generations, yet we will have made a conscious effort. To us, this matters. :- Doug.

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Why 300 years?

Why 300 years? Because it lifts our sights beyond those with whom we are able to talk. Because those in 300 years are close enough we can imagine them, but far enough away we are forced to think longer, in … Continue reading

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The eldering moment

Have you entered the eldering moment? :- Doug.

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Blessing it is

Blessing it is we want: generations and generations of people who are blessings upon the race. :- Doug.

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Hearing craft

There is a craft of storytelling. There is also a craft of people hearing. :- Doug.

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Living is community

Living is a community activity. :- Doug.

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Tell and be

Tell a story. Be a story. :- Doug.

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11th experiment?

How do you want to see your 11th generation act? Ought we demonstrate, or start the experiment? :- Doug.

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Raise up good

We’re writing the stories that will raise up a generation of new humanity: good people. :- Doug.

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Improve generations

Let’s encourage their voice. To tell their story. To tell truth. This improves generations. :- Doug.

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The father of fear

If we are to make progress in being human and good, we need to attend anger, and its cause, fear. What is the father of fear? Unfamiliarity? Its antidote? Meeting? :- Doug.

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Our decisive roles

One task is to start seeing our decisive roles for our own lives, for our community, for our species, and beyond. :- Doug.

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Shaping humanity

We’re not shaping the world of the future: that’s a metaphor. We are shaping humanity now: that’s actuality. :- Doug.

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Live your humanity?

The question for you, grandchild, is how to live your humanity into the world, and your task is more than living rightly: It is also to keep asking that question—expecting new responses. :- Doug.

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Elders pause

Elders are Conversers are How we converse Over a 300 year Pause :- Doug.

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Story survival

What might help your story survive? Does it have to survive in just that form? :- Doug.

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